https://youtu.be/NoGANqQNVvA?si=Kz_70c8Zc7W4YK3h Breath of an architect It is a true experience. This exhibition stirs in the visitor an unusual sensation of tranquillity and harmony. “Bijoy Jain. Studio Mumbai. Breath of an Architect” is on...
Hans Ulrich Obrist: urgent confessions from a child of art
https://youtu.be/3rlfatblqWQ 1968 The story begins in 1968. The year that was defined by a generation who, across the world, proclaimed their desire for freedom. 1968 was also the year that marked the death of the French turned American artist,...
In Venice for the Biennale, the architecture constructs a little and deconstructs a lot: interviews
https://youtu.be/o547_HrrfJE Impactful buildings Architecture these days is facing two major strong and opposing trends. On the one hand it is expressed through its conquest of large-scale sites across the planet, through the construction of...
Inside the mind of Norman Foster at the Centre Pompidou
https://youtu.be/ViGaTcP8XPw Travel hopefully “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” This famous phrase from Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson can be perfectly applied to the new large-scale exhibition at the Centre...
François Catroux: part of Yves Saint Laurent’s circle, the famous decorator’s collection is auctioned while the value of design skyrockets
Saint Laurent, Loulou de la Falaise, Betty Catroux Great creatives, who are so unique, tend to feel the need to create a close-knit circle around them. This is true of Yves Saint Laurent, whose two best friends became legendary muses: Loulou de...
Lacaton and Vassal: the 2021 Pritzker Prize winners in their own words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcPjIvN450 Ego Are they starchitects? On 16 March 2021 the famous Pritzker Prize was awarded to a French couple: Anne Lacaton (born in 1955) and Jean-Philippe Vassal (born in 1954). Partners in life and in...
The He Museum designed by Tadao Ando: a new art colossus in China and a big buyer of artworks
Museum depressingly closed During a period that’s been turbulent on all fronts, where numerous museums around the world remain depressingly closed while some, notably in the United States, have been forced to sell pieces from their collections...
Rem Koolhaas: the architect’s great cultural revolution fills the whole Guggenheim in New York…Finally
There was a very short window of opportunity to visit the Countryside , the future exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York last February, thanks to Covid. The show, which is more theoretical than aesthetic and is overseen by the Dutch...
Tadao Ando at the Centre Pompidou: Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano tell all
The ultra-famous Japanese architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize , Tadao Ando (born in 1941) possesses an uncommon grace. He doesn’t display the usual rigidity during interviews. I met him last year and the man was all smiles, speaking to me at length about boxing...